Parliamentary Question on Remote Examination by Gamze Akkuş İlgezdi

CHP Deputy Chairperson and Istanbul Deputy Dr. Gamze Akkuş İlgezdi stated that the remote examination practice intended to be introduced to family health centers by the Ministry of Health threatens patient safety and physician security, and submitted a parliamentary question for Minister of Health Kemal Memişoğlu to answer in the TBMM.

CHP's Gamze Akkuş İlgezdi reacted to the remote examination appointments planned to be made mandatory in family health centers through the Central Physician Appointment System (MHRS). Arguing that universal principles of medicine are being ignored, İlgezdi stated that the practice poses a risk in terms of public health.

Claiming that the Ministry of Health is leaving diagnosis to chance and liquidating preventive health services in order to cover up the appointment crisis, İlgezdi noted that examinations to be performed without clinical diagnostic methods could lead to fatal diagnoses and that the responsibility would be placed on physicians.